The Call Pushes The Distress Button In Average Thriller!
by ALAN SAMUEL
Trouble on the job heavily impacts a top employee in The Call a new thriller from Tri Star Pictures and Columbia Pictures. Get set to feel the chill attack your body at The Empire Studio 12, Colossus and Cineplex odeon Theatres everywhere.
Don’t take your work home with you. Heed that advice for a healthy environment. Many folks work at high impact jobs. Few experience the strains of day to day work as serious as those that confront emergency telephone operators. Thought by many to be at the top of her game is a 911 operator extraordinaire played with relish by Oscar winning actress Halle Berry (Die another Day). Anyone can have an off day and a call or two jar this single woman. Slight help is offered to her by her man in waiting, a boy in blue who mans up considerably under the able due diligence of Morris Chestnut.
Bad news travels fast and the abduction of a young woman sends a chill throughout”the hive” – the name given to the Los Angeles call center. Fresh off her triumphant work as the child star in Little Miss Sunshine comes Abigail Breslin who exudes terror as the trapped woman. Blame it all on a lone psychopath called Michael. Now that half the L.A. police force is after him Saskatchewan born Vancouver based Michael Ecklund is full value as the wacked out abudctor who runs into a determined 911 operator out to put an end to his reign of terror.
Smart, effective and full of tension The Call is an effective suspense yarn made all the better thanks to the believability of Ms. Berry and a very skilled recreation of a traumatic emergency call center.
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